Fully awaken to your potential Buddhahood through the innovative guidance, exercises, and personal reflections of one of contemporary Buddhism's most experienced teachers.When we deeply experience the Absolute, we are transformed by a profound, life-changing Awakening. But what happens after this realization? How do we embody and sustain it? Buddhist tradition has little to support our ongoing assimilation of these intense experiences—until now.Stephen Muge...

A unique and fulfilling map to realization and Awakening offered by one of today's finest spiritual teachers.With Trust in Awakening, Zen and Theravada Buddhist teacher Stephen Doetsu Snyder presents a fresh and powerful reworking of the 7th century Zen poem, the Xin Xin Ming. This poem has guided and inspired serious Zen practitioners on the path to Awakening for centuries. Structuring its stanzas in koan-like meditations, Snyder interprets the poem's directions to seeing the Abso...

"A rich and beautiful resource for those called to deepen their exploration of Awakening and freedom."—Tara Brach, best-selling author of Trusting the Gold and Radical CompassionSee the potential that is within each of us—the realization and embodiment of our true natureWith Demystifying Awakening, senior meditation teacher Stephen Snyder skillfully marks the subtle path of the Awakening process. With loving care, personal examples, and gentle suggestions, Stephen pl...

"This exceptional book combines penetrating psychological analysis with profound spiritual wisdom"—Rick Hanson, PhD, author of Buddha's Brain and NeurodharmaGuided by one of contemporary Buddhism's most experienced teachers, rigorously explore and deconstruct your concept of self to reach the path of freedom—living your true nature as one with the Absolute.In Li...

An inspiring and healing guide to immersive meditation in the ancient Buddhist heart practices—the brahmavihāras."A profound integration of clarity, heart, and grounded practice."—Rick Hanson, PhD, psychologist and NYT bestselling author of Buddha's BrainWith Buddha's Heart, senior meditation teacher Stephen Snyder reveals an original and clear path to the powerful brahmavihāras. These practices offer rich, soothing support for the soul and a portal to spiritual awak...

A practical guide for a more relaxed and enjoyable legal career—authored by a retired lawyer and senior meditation teacher"This is the best book written about the value of mindfulness and meditation for lawyers, as well as others in high-stakes occupations." —Rick Hanson, Ph.D., author of Resilient and Buddha's BrainClient, firm, and court demands can feel unending. Truly relaxing seems impossible. Is there any hope? Yes! With help, you can practice law with ease.Yo...

Can sex survive monogamy?Yes, once you understand how sexual emotions really work.This acclaimed, paradigm-shifting guide turns traditional sex therapy inside-out to reveal the hidden rules for great sex.Gentle, compassionate, and filled with compelling stories from Dr. Stephen Snyder’s thirty years as a sex therapist working with over 1,500 individuals and couples, Love Worth Making is essential reading for anyone hoping to keep sexual inspiration ...

Two experienced American meditators explain the stages and techniques of concentration meditation, as taught by the Buddhist master Pa Auk SayadawThis is a clear and in-depth presentation of the traditional Theravadin concentration meditation known as jhāna practice, from two authors who have practiced the jhānas in retreat under the guidance of one of the great living meditation masters, Pa Auk Sayadaw. The authors describe the techniques and their results, based ...

"It's not just Murakami but also the shadow of Borges that hovers over this mesmerizing book... [and] one may detect a slight bow to the American macabre of E.A. Poe. Ogawa stands on the shoulders of giants, as another saying goes. But this collection may linger in your mind -- it does in mine -- as a delicious, perplexing, absorbing and somehow singular experience." -- Alan Cheuse, NPRSinister forces collide---and unite a host of desperat...

Finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book AwardA haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are...

From the depths of the human mind lies more horror than anyone can imagine. True terror can only come from nightmares. From serial killers stalking prey and cannibalism to witches and demons. Join the BisMan Writer's Guild as they tell A Nightmare's Testimony.

Yoko Ogawa's The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family.He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem—ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.She is an astute young Housekeeper—with a ten-year-old son—who is hired to care for the Professor. And every morning, as the Prof...